Do you buy the CD if you own the DVD?

One other example comes to mind... I bought the original U2 Rattle & Hum CD only to learn later on that the Rattle & Hum DVD contained many more live tracks (13 I think...) than the regular CD. So I eventually decided to get the DVD too. Now... I guess I need to learn *how* to rip it to my audio collection. Where do I go to learn how to do this...any suggestions?

 

Use the forum search function, but:
DVD Audio Extractor -- Full featured DVD audio ripper for your easy use is your friend here and very easy to use. There are other ways; MakeMKV, Audiomuxer, but DVDAE is easy to use.

 

Sure.

 

I went with No though I think that I have very occasionally double dipped. I think I own Big Big Train on Blu-Ray and CD but that's almost accidental. I actually don't usually listen to the CDs of a concert even if they come in the package with the Blu-Ray ... though if I really wanted to I'd probably stream the live album on Amazon anyway.

 

Yes I do.

 

Quite often the content of the CD and the DVD differs.

For example I have the DVD and CD “Jethro Tull at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970”. Whereas the dvd is missing a number of songs (“With You There to Help Me”, “Bouree”) the CD is missing a ton of the stage banter. Also there are edited tracks (“the drum solo of “Dharma for One”).

It’s better for me to have both formats so I can have what the other format is missing.

 

someone posted the link to DVD audio extractor.

Made my own R&H deluxe edition with the album, the live tracks from the movie, the remixes on the singles and the b-sides, plus "Jesus Christ" from that tribute album. I can't imagine Universal doing anything much different or better than what I did on my own.

 

I use software called DVD Audio Extractor (dvdae.com). I did pay for the full version years ago and it's definitely worth it.

 

"if the audio content on both is exactly the same" - is it really?

 

What a fantastic U2 project! I would love to hear it...
Would you care to post the track list for what you came up with?

 

I put "it depends"...

Since the inception of the home concert video, I much prefer to watch the concert while listening.
Some concerts are entertaining from a stage show perspective.
Some concerts are entertaining to me, to see the way the musicians interact.
Obviously I would like the music, otherwise I wouldn't have bought one, or the other, or both.
But watching artists do their thing takes it to the next level for me, so concert albums have become less satisfying, for the most part.

 

No, only way I have both the CD and the DVD is if I bought the CD first. I can rip DVD audio to FLAC so I don't need to get the CD, also I don't expect the CD mastering to be as good or better than the DVD.

 

Most concert dvds/Blurays I have bought I have only watched once or twice.Live albums I play a lot.That being said I will always buy the combined CD/Bluray or DVD option if it is available.
Buying one after I already have the other rarely happens.Only examples I can think of are Stevie Nicks The 24 Karat Gold Tour,Pearl Jam Live At The Garden,Rolling Stones Shine A Light,Roxy Music Live At The Apollo,Bruce Springsteen Live In New York City,U2 Elevation Live From Boston ,Talking Heads Stop Making Sense,The Who Quadrophenia Live In London/Tommy Live At The Royal Albert Hall and Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps(and soon Rust Bucket and Young Shakespeare).

 

Just was confronted with this issue. Dire Straits - On the Night has more tracks on the DVD than the CD. SQ is about comparable. No real reason to keep the CD.

 

Assuming your DVD player is connected to a receiver you don't have to have the TV on when you are playing it.

 

My DVD player is built into my TV.

 

Certainly.

 

Oh

 

Is it just the extra tracks from the Encores thing? I've never actually seen the video version.

 

Yes, the DVD won’t play in the car or the boom box in the garage.

 

I answered "Yes." There are times when I buy only the CD, and not the DVD, but that wasn't an option. Typically I'm more interested in listening than in watching; but sometimes the concert only comes out on DVD, in which case I'll rip the audio to CD. (Then sometimes the audio comes out on CD at a later date, in which case I'll buy it.)

 

I did this for every album, really. Ditching the CD format made it a lot easier. My Pop playlist which I think I posted in another thread awhile back ended up being about 4 1/2 hours...even if Universal did something, they'd inevitably compromise and leave out some important things or mixes, so I just did it for them.

 

Yep. The recent Eagles at the LA Forum release (with Vince Gill) is so good that I also bought the vinyl.

 

Yeah, I think we're at the point where a lot of us are starting to re-think what an album was/is, now that we have more access and wherewithal to create our own "deluxe editions" of all of our favorites. Lately I've been re-tagging b-sides and bonus tracks from EP's as being a part of the album from which the single or EP was supporting, so they play together. Haven't thought about rearranging the track orders to reflect this recreating history, though.

 

I have learned how to rip DVDs to lossless WAV or FLAC audio files, which is great. I do this mainly when the DVD is not available as CD.